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TagAudiobook Review: Gene Roddenberry’s “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” Novelization Gets a Randy Reading For Its 40th Birthday
40 years ago, Star Trek made its theatrical debut with a prismatic, shagadelic, extremely sincere film that survives as an awkward but endearing spectacle.
Audiobook Review: Margaret Atwood’s “Testaments” Brings New Voices to Gilead
The audio edition of “The Testaments” enlists six readers — including the author herself — to bring Margaret Atwood’s multi-vocal manuscript to life.
Audiobook Review: Star Wars Adventures Introduce the World of Galaxy’s Edge
Delilah S. Dawson’s “Black Spire,” Zoraida Córdova’s “A Crash of Fate,” and George Mann’s “Star Wars Myths & Fables” become immersive Star Wars audiobooks.
The Baby-Sitters Club Books Are Now Out on Audio. All 131 of Them.
Millennials who binged on the paperbacks in their youth can now introduce their own kids to the series as Audible drops all 131 titles in audio form.
Audiobook Review: “Thrawn: Treason” Concludes an Epic Star Wars Trilogy
Author Timothy Zahn keeps us engaged with a character who can outguess just about everyone he encounters — while Thrawn’s own motivations remain elusive.
Audiobook Review: Mona Awad’s “Bunny” Is a Hare-Raising Allegory of the Writing Process
Mona Awad’s new novel is a gothic fairy tale rife with symbolism, one that takes a cartoonish distillation of a graduate program as its setting.
Audiobook Review: “Alphabet Squadron” Spells Out a New Kind of Star Wars Story
“Alphabet Squadron” takes us deep into the trenches with a ragtag band of New Republic pilots, and the audiobook has a new sound for this gritty story.
Audiobook Review: “Dooku: Jedi Lost” is a Whirlwind Backstory
A new audio exclusive tells the backstory of Count Dooku, the Star Wars prequel villain who left the Jedi Order only to return to haunt it.
Audiobook Review: “H.G. Wells: The Science Fiction Collection”
A new Audible collection enlists a stable of screen stars to read H.G. Wells’s five best-known science fiction novels. They’re still ripping good stories.
Audiobook Review: “Master & Apprentice” Spotlights Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan Before Jar Jar
Distinguished as the earliest book in the current Star Wars timeline, Claudia Gray’s ‘Master & Apprentice’ is lavish exposition of Qui-Gon Jinn’s backstory.
Audiobook Review: In “Up Against the Wall,” David Hasselhoff Saves the Free World
David Hasselhoff wrote and narrates a new alternate history that inflates his role in the end of the Cold War beyond, even, the strange reality of it.
Audiobook Review: “Queen’s Shadow” Explores Amidala in the Age of AOC
E.K. Johnston’s YA novel explores Padmé Amidala’s transition from queen to senator. Audiobook narrator Catherine Taber voiced Padmé on “Clone Wars.”